Philbert Bontecou

Philbert, Vicomte de Bontecou (1721-1793) was a Marshal of France and statesman.

Early Life
Philbert Bontecou was born to Marcel Bontecou, a famous leader of the royal forces that reestablished the Monarchy in France after the 1709 Republic. Philbert Bontecou grew up in the ancestral home of the Bontecou family, Castle Bontecou. The title that he inherited from his father after his death in 1758, Vicomte, was a purely ornamental title. Philbert studied politics and economics at the Conservatory of Paris and then moved on to study Military Studies at the College of Orléans.

French Revolution
At the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789, Philbert Bontecou stayed loyal to the Monarchy. He lead a small group of royal soldiers against the citizens of Paris but was defeated and arrested. He was publicly executed in 1793, together with his wife and rest of the family, for being aristocrats. His ancestral home, Castle Bontecou, became a barrack for Republican forces.